A vague shade of milky coffee?

Sheepskin, knee high boots keep the cosy under the skirt but my sole came off at the petrol station on the way so my Dad had to glue it back on!
A burrowing into the cupboard under the stairs found this Primark, crocheted beret which I haven't worn for a few years as it matches the cardigan- what shade would you call it? Milky coffee? Biscuit? Weak tea? Beige?  Oatmeal?
Accessory-wise, an turquoise silk scarf that used to belong to my Nan (she died in 1997) kept my neck warm without being bulky.

Can you believe this necklace and earrings aren't a set. One was a present- the other charity-shopped!

I'm trying to remember the last week so this post isn't just a description of my outfit.

I'm very tired as I've got another cold.  Thankfully though, it's a fairly mild version of the awful cold that CBC has had for the last week or so- he was really unwell so he had a couple of days of work and let me tell you that doesn't happen very often. He's not a patient patient so it's been a little hard to look after him!

On Friday night, my niece came over to stay (brought by my sister who stayed for a cup of tea and a chat).  We all went to bed fairly early and then she and I got up around 8am to walk to the station at around 9.15am to catch a train to Colchester as I'd promised K a trip to Waterworld/Leisure World.

I've been there twice before with CBC. Now, post Covid, you have to book a 1.5 hour session, whereas before you could stay as long as you want.

It took us about 2.25 hours to get there in total. If you want to take someone to a fun swimming place in Essex, it is a good place to choose. It cost £9.60 for the session for me and £8.60 for K.  You are allowed in 15minutes before your session starts to get changed.

The main 'pool' area isn't huge- there isn't a rectangular pool but everything is nicely contained and keeps you entertained.  There is a lazy river which also has waves every so often, there are lots of things that fill up with water and suddenly drop or shower you. There's a fun shallow area for little kids with fun things to do and 2 big spa pools.  There's 2 flumes which you climb the stairs up to.  There's also outdoor rapids but they are not currently open due to maintenance.

This morning, I managed to get out of bed at 8.01am, get showered and dressed, cycle to the station and jump on the train for 20mins to go back to my old church to join them for the Team service (all the churches in the team parish). It was so nice to see everyone and be part of such a lovely worship service.  We ended with  the Celtic version of  'Be thou my vision' and it was so powerful and beautiful!

I came home with some delicious bread rolls left over from a local bakery- they were DELICIOUS+ I have eaten 3 of them!!!

I came home and did some tea bag composting from school (only 56 teabags this week as someone chucked about 50 teabags from it midweek when it got too full, before I could decant it) and emptied the compost, took a few TARDIS Tuesday photos and tackled the epic clothes 'slick' (like an oil slick but consisting of clothes) that had erupted over the bedroom floor.

The week had some good elements and some, not so good.

The Year 5's did really well with their Medieval era listening tests, identifying sacred and secular songs, the Year 6's did quite well with their pieces inspired by Baroque Sonatas (and I performed Bach E major flute sonata to them which they were very positive about).

I survived 3 lessons of Year 2 listening to and writing about Handel's Music for the Royal Fireworks and Stravinsky's Fireworks. They were writing- it was hard. Enough said.

The Year 3's listened to and wrote about Samba music- also hard- not usually this hard!

The Year 4's were writing up their own melodies onto the stave- wasn't as painful as it could be! A couple of victories with some new children who managed to do it, despite not having learnt about the stave in their old school!

Choir are doing really well learning our songs for the Royal Albert Hall.  They are excited!

Singing assemblies were all great- I have been doing a Lunar New Year theme and found some really lovely traditional  Percussion music for the KS1 children to watch. (Check out "The Tiger grinds its teeth" on YouTube) which they were really excited by, I played the beautiful Hulusi instrument to the Year 5-6 kids and played a YouTube video of the Erhu to the Year 3-4's.

Next week, I am performing a version of Brahms requiem in Kent with a scratch orchestra and staying over at my Dad's beforehand! I'll have seen them 3 times this month! Hurrah!

Hope all is well with you!

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